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We are regularly engaged in wider public discussion around mental health, substance use and other related topics.
2023
- Sky News New review reveals COVID-19 pandemic's toll on depression and anxiety, as Australia faces looming mental health crisis
- News Wise Moving on from COVID means facing its impact on mental health, say experts
- Rolling Stone Interview With a Cannabis Expert
- Cosmos Magazine 50 women at the cutting edge of science in Australia
- Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences Professor Maree Teesson: at the forefront of mental health research
- Planetizen Lonely by Design: How Urban Planning Can Intensify Social Isolation
- ABC News Breakfast Study finds city planning can make isolation worse
- Greater Greater Washington National Links: A call to action to shift mindsets around bike lanes
- Street Blog USA Feeling Lonely? It's Not You, It's the Way We've Built our Nation
- The Conversation Why loneliness is both an individual thing and a shared result of the cities we create
- ABC Radio Melbourne New study found that those with a low level of drinking had a lower risk of depression by age 50
- 2GB Moderate Alcohol Consumption and Depression
- Channel Nine Booze blues: study shows people who drink a bit have lower risk of depression
- Sydney Morning Herald Drinking a little bit of alcohol makes you less depressed than drinking none
2022
- BHP News Australians voice concerns over growing mental health pressure points
- The Australian Schools should be last to close in pandemic: taskforce
- Junkee Why Dexamphetamines Have Become A Staple Of Australia’s Party Scene
- SBS News The latest COVID-19 wave has sparked mental health fears. Here's how you can look after yourself
- The Saturday Paper Long Covid: After-effect hits up to 400,000 Australians
- COACH and the DOCTOR podcast Amanda Jane Pritchard and Dr.Lexine Stapinski
- The Conversation Triple vaccination seems to reduce the chance of long COVID – but we still need to prepare for a jump in cases
- SBS Online Advocacy groups call for more funding after 2.2 million Australians report mental health condition
- The Australian Young Aussies the loneliest during lockdown
- The Guardian One in two young Australians experienced stressors during pandemic, data shows
- The Conversation We asked the public about being lonely during lockdowns. For many, Zoom calls weren’t enough – and some still haven’t recovered
- Illawarra Mercury Corey Tutt awarded OAM for service to Indigenous STEM education
- Daily Liberal COVID bill pressure hits mental health
- 7NEWS COVID-19 hit mental health and hip pockets
- The Epoch Times Studies Highlight Potential Long-term Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Teens
- EastMojo Here’s all that’s taking the biggest toll on our mental health
- Triple J Breakfast News Teen girls are drinking more and sleeping less
- Triple J Hack Teen girls bucked a few trends in the pandemic, and not in a good way
- News Medical Life Sciences Poor sleep, screen time, alcohol and tobacco use increased among Australian teens after the pandemic
- Radio Adelaide spoke to Dr Marlee Bower about Australians’ mental health priorities post COVID
- The Conversation What's taking the biggest toll on our mental health? Disconnection, financial stress and long waits for care
- Xinhua News Agency Teenage girls hit harder by pandemic: Aussie survey
- Sydney Morning Herald Teenage girls' drinking 'bucking the trend' and not in a good way
- ABC News Study finds increased sleep disturbances among teens
- HIT Pandemic affected teenage girls drinking to cope with anxiety and stress
- 3AW, ABC Darwin, and 2CC featured research by Dr Lauren Gardner on diet, exercise, sleep and screen habits of teenagers during the pandemic
- Herald Sun Screen test fail in Covid
- ABC Radio (Sydney) and 2GB reported on Matilda Centre research findings on teenage health during the pandemic
- Sydney Morning Herald How much should I drink? Why no single study will ever answer that question
- The Mandarin Movers & Shakers: AGD’s new assistant secretary, water pundit joins Productivity Commission
- The Educator How teachers and parents can stage digital interventions
- ABC All in the Mind The vicious cycle of alcohol and anxiety
- News.com.au Australia’s Covid-19 deaths in 2022 more than double combined total from previous two years
- Body and Soul Australia’s Covid deaths in 2022 have doubled those in the last two years combined
- Sydney Morning Herald Time for politicians to talk about the youth mental health crisis
- Mental Health Commission of New South Wales Hope, strength and determination: Celebrating 50 years of women activists and reformers in mental health in NSW 1970-2020
- Reframe of Mind (Podcast) Episode 14: Mental Health and Addiction
- ABC Everyday How to cope with your sibling's substance use issues
- The Sydney Morning Herald ‘No one is immune’: How Open success, wave of support inspired Kyrgios’ depression revelations
- ABC News Do you have anxiety and drink alcohol to cope? It could be making things worse
- ABC Late News Weekend Anxiety Project: Drinking Dread (starts 23m 57s)
- ABC 7pm News New study looks at how long term alcohol use makes anxiety worse
- The Good Men Project Pandemic Inequalities and the Mental Health Crisis
- The Sydney Morning Herald For the sake of the 'forgotten voices' of the pandemic, reopen Australia’s schools
- ABC Health Report Substance use omnibus
- The Guardian Why 'pruning' friends has been so common during the pandemic
- Vogue Australia In Real Life (January 2022, pages 76-77)
- The Australian How to navigate 're-entry anxiety'
2021
- Green Left Pandemic inequalities and the mental health crisis
- ABC Health Report Rising ICE use in Australia and the latest research on treatments
- Sax Institute Sax Institute welcomes new members
- Dovetail "Cracks in the ice" information and resources for Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander people
- SBS News Another COVID Christmas and beating loneliness
- BHP All's well as lockdown ends?
- ABC Health Report How healthy are Aussie teens' habits?
- Triple J Hack We don’t usually talk to our parents about the drugs we take — here’s why we should
- SBS World News Coming out of lockdown and 're-entry anxiety'
- NRL Community NRL supporting #YouthGotThis mental health forum
- The Conversation Most of us will recover our mental health after lockdown. But some will find it harder to bounce back
- Daily Telegraph How to deal with social anxiety once lockdown ends
- Herald Sun How to deal with social anxiety once lockdown ends
- News.com.au How to deal with social anxiety once lockdown ends
- ABC Weekend Breakfast News Lockdowns ending can trigger 're-entry anxiety'
- 2GB Ben Fordham Live
- The Conversation Lonely after lockdown? How COVID may leave us with fewer friends if we are not careful
- ABC Radio Sydney Lockdown changing the shape and quality of friendships
- The Project (Channel 10) Long-term effect of COVID on friendships
- ABC Radio National Tears, fears and hope — your pandemic life
- ABC Online How Australians coped with COVID lockdown, and what they're looking forward to next
- Domain The importance of a 'happy' home and what it means for our wellbeing
- Mirages News Civic engagement strongest in young from culturally diverse families
- The Guardian Experts urge higher income support payments to stem youth mental health crisis
- Insider Voice Experts Urge Higher Income Support Payments to Stop Youth Mental Health Crisis | Wellness
- Junkee What to do if you catch yourself constantly doomscrolling?
- Dazed Digital Bitching, backstabbing, and boundaries redrawn on Instagram Close Friends
- ABC News Alcohol use in children, and how parents can make a difference
- ABC Radio Darwin How do you look after your kids when they want to experiment with, or potentially misuse, alcohol? (starts at 2h 15m)
- The Sydney Morning Herald Helpline calls spike as Sydneysiders struggle with the lockdown loneliness and anxiety
- ABC Everyday How micro-interactions can help us feel less lonely during the pandemic
- SkyNews Extra Pandemic Fatigue: Young Australians and Mental Health
- ABC Health Report When alcohol use becomes problematic for people living with anxiety
- ABC Online Poor housing has direct impact on mental health during COVID lockdowns, study finds
- ABC AM Radio Housing conditions affect mental health during lockdown
- Channel 9 Today Show We might be in the same storm, but we're not all in the same boat
- ABC Health Report What can the brain tell us about teenagers more at risk of substance use?
- 2SER interviewed Associate Professor Lexine Stapinski from about the INROADS program
- ABC Health Report Research finds that drinking even small amounts of alcohol while pregnant can cause harm
- FBi Radio Mental health during Lockdown with Dr. Marlee Bower
- ABC Health Report What can parents do to prevent kids misusing alcohol and drugs?
- AFL NSW/ACT Katie Dean: A wise head on competitive shoulders
- 2MCE - Regional Community Radio Information and resources developed with and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
- The Daily Telegraph Young & restless in lockdown isolation
- ABC Everyday How micro-interactions can help us feel less lonely during the pandemic
- ABC Online 'Huge stigma' attached to ice addiction prevents people from seeking help, treatment
- News Founded The 'big stigma' attached to ice addiction prevents people from seeking help, treatment
- Honi Soit Managing "pandemic fatigue" will take structural change
2020
- SBS The Feed NSW is considering changes to drug possession laws. How much difference would it make?
- The Daily Telegraph COVID borders reopen: Australians happy to be travelling again
- Sydney Morning Herald Now we know more, how much booze is too much?
- Healio Any prenatal alcohol exposure may cause adverse effects among offspring
- Study Finds Drinking even a small amount of alcohol while pregnant can put baby’s brain in danger
- BBC Worklife Coronavirus: The possible long-term mental health impacts
- Channel 7 (Prime7 News Wagga) Ice crisis
- BBC Worklife How lockdowns are changing our friendship groups
- The Sydney Morning Herald 'No safe level': a few drinks during pregnancy could harm children, study says
- Forbes Drinking A Small Amount Of Alcohol During Pregnancy Can Impact A Child’s Brain Development, Says Study
- Education HQ Say no to comic sans: Prevent substance use with more slang, deeper characters and a change of font
- The Sydney Morning Herald 'We might have dodged a bullet': How COVID-19 restrictions affected our health
- 2ser Our lives changes are the ease of coronavirus restrictions
- The Australian Yes we can: a new generation’s winning ways
- ABC News Coronavirus pandemic could trigger a spike in mental illness — this organisation thinks psychedelic drugs will help
- ABC News News briefing: Here's what you need to know this morning... Psychedelic treatment for mental health
- The Conversation Reconnecting after coronavirus – 4 key ways cities can counter anxiety and loneliness
- ABC Radio Adelaide Are we taking mental health seriously?
- Scroll.int In a post-Covid-19 world, cities must be redesigned to help combat loneliness and anxiety
- The Australian Corey Tutt: How toilets in space hit scientific chord
- The Australian Revealed: the Australians who inspired you
2019
- SBS Life The Truth About Masculinity
- SBS Life The Truth About Childhood Trauma
- ABC Radio National On Thin Ice - a story of addiction and recovery
- ABC Radio Triple J Hack
- The Sydney Morning Herald Just before her 21st birthday, Mary was given an unusual gift: addiction